Today (Wednesday, June 23), the Associated Press (AP) reported that tens of thousands of gallons more oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico after an undersea robot bumped a venting system, forcing British Petroleum (BP) to remove the cap that had been containing some of the crude. The setback, one of many in the nine-week effort to stop the gusher, came as thick pools of oil washed up on Florida’s Pensacola Beach, and the Obama Administration worked on resurrecting a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. The current worst-case estimate of what’s spewing into the ocean is about 2.5 million gallons a day. Yet U.S. District Court Judge Martin L.C. Feldman stated that just because one oil rig failed, that doesn’t mean that they all will; a comment that I, personally, can only describe as Complete Piffle (CP).
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